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Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments, complex phrase- adverbfurther dissected Through - prepositiona mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments compound noun phrase, object of preposition using herself as a reluctant...

"Whoever" is correct. The indirect object of the verb in the main clause is the entire noun clause, not just the head of the clause. Directly quoted from "Cliff's notes" (sorry for the long inset)Pronoun case in subordinate clauseWho, whom, whoever, whomever. In deciding...

On reflection, I think I must amend one thing I wrote earlier. (General statements are always dangerous when speaking about English...sorry )Sometimes indirect objects are not preceded by a preposition. This happens, for instance, with verbs like send/give/write: John gave me the book. ...

Hi, I can mention a couple of them. To be: I was here at five. - I am tired. - To be or not to be?To exist: Do you believe UFOs exist?To appear: He appeared suddenly.To die: My grannie died at the age of 92. - John has died.To rain: It's raining heavily. - It's going to rain.To lie:...

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

"To" is not a preposition here. It's part of the infinitive form of the verb, "to introduce." "To introduce you to Paul" is an infinitive phrase acting as a noun, not a prepositional phrase.Best wishes, - A.

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

This post is a little dated but since I've been working with my students on this very topic I thought I'd post.First, you can't understand what the "object of the preposition" is if you don't first know how to identify prepositions. So you need to find a list (google "list prepositions English"...